tube, pipe
→
negative evaluation
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | труба | |
| meaning 1 | tube, pipe | У нас нет горячей воды, потому что прорвало трубы. We have no hot water because the pipes broke. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | very bad | Дело труба The things are very bad |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Turkish | |
| lexeme | boru | |
| meaning 1 | tube, pipe | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | very bad | işi borudur His things are extremely bad (argo) |
| reference | Baskakov 1977: 126 | |
| comment | ||
In Russian and Turkish the word boru also means 'trumpet', so I don't know what is the source meaning for the shift